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What you're seeing in Georgia is a terrible candidate put up against someone who if not for outside influence would not have been there to start.

tomrod 4y ago
I'm having trouble parsing your sentence. For others not in the US, the state of Georgia has a legislature runoff face where a Texan is running against a Georgian. The Texan appears to have failed to establish residency (does not actively live in the state they are campaigning to represent) and, being a popular sports figure, has been a source of a lot of discussion around mental health and traumatic brain injury in politicians due to the candidate's many gaffes and apparent hypocrisy (paying for an abortion while claiming to want to support a general ban). The other, the incumbent and a local church pastor, comes from the nominally left-wing party and thus is the target of right-wing propaganda despite representing a lot of the values the median right-wing voter likes. Sports-in-politics are weird and no one is happy from it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- brodouevencode 4y ago
  To clarify what I mean: in the 2020 Senate runoff it was between Raphael Warnock and Kelly Loeffler. Despite what some people want to claim, Georgia is still a very red state, and has had Republicans at the helm for nearly 20 year. Even the Democrat leaders of yore (Zell Miller, Max Cleland, etc.) would be considered to the right of Joe Manchin - blue dog Democrats. Loeffler was going to win, but Donald Trump tried to wield his influence on the election, which did two things 1) turned off would-be Republican voters and 2) riled up Democrat voters. Prior to the rally to support Loeffler her numbers were up - pretty far up too. Warnock's win was a referendum on Trump. But apparently that wasn't enough - Hershel Walker is Trump's hand picked candidate, and is not a very good one besides that. He's probably going to suffer the same fate. Walker has popular social appeal as you correctly point out - he was an all star running back for the University of Georgia and everyone in the state over the age of 30 knew his name even prior to his political career. But as I say, he's a terrible candidate.
ceejayoz 4y ago
Democrats would argue Walker is a terrible candidate boosted by outside influence. Republicans would argue Warnock is a terrible candidate boosted by outside influence. Not sure I've seen many argue a 50/50 split.
- brodouevencode 4y ago
  That's fair. Warnock most likely would not have been elected had Trump not come in and made a scene. Prior to that one rally Leoffler's numbers had her winning by a decent margin. After that she never recovered.

tomrod 4y ago

I'm having trouble parsing your sentence. For others not in the US, the state of Georgia has a legislature runoff face where a Texan is running against a Georgian. The Texan appears to have failed to establish residency (does not actively live in the state they are campaigning to represent) and, being a popular sports figure, has been a source of a lot of discussion around mental health and traumatic brain injury in politicians due to the candidate's many gaffes and apparent hypocrisy (paying for an abortion while claiming to want to support a general ban). The other, the incumbent and a local church pastor, comes from the nominally left-wing party and thus is the target of right-wing propaganda despite representing a lot of the values the median right-wing voter likes. Sports-in-politics are weird and no one is happy from it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

brodouevencode 4y ago
To clarify what I mean: in the 2020 Senate runoff it was between Raphael Warnock and Kelly Loeffler. Despite what some people want to claim, Georgia is still a very red state, and has had Republicans at the helm for nearly 20 year. Even the Democrat leaders of yore (Zell Miller, Max Cleland, etc.) would be considered to the right of Joe Manchin - blue dog Democrats. Loeffler was going to win, but Donald Trump tried to wield his influence on the election, which did two things 1) turned off would-be Republican voters and 2) riled up Democrat voters. Prior to the rally to support Loeffler her numbers were up - pretty far up too. Warnock's win was a referendum on Trump. But apparently that wasn't enough - Hershel Walker is Trump's hand picked candidate, and is not a very good one besides that. He's probably going to suffer the same fate. Walker has popular social appeal as you correctly point out - he was an all star running back for the University of Georgia and everyone in the state over the age of 30 knew his name even prior to his political career. But as I say, he's a terrible candidate.

ceejayoz 4y ago

Democrats would argue Walker is a terrible candidate boosted by outside influence. Republicans would argue Warnock is a terrible candidate boosted by outside influence. Not sure I've seen many argue a 50/50 split.

brodouevencode 4y ago
That's fair. Warnock most likely would not have been elected had Trump not come in and made a scene. Prior to that one rally Leoffler's numbers had her winning by a decent margin. After that she never recovered.